Classic Country Gold [Original recording remastered]

Disc: 1

1. Hey, Good Lookin' - Hank Williams

2. It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels - Kitty Wells

3. Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford

4. Why Baby Why - Webb Pierce, Red Sovine

5. I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash

6. All I Have to Do Is Dream - The Everly Brothers

7. Hello Walls - Faron Young

8. Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke, Leroy Van Dyke

9. I Fall to Pieces - Patsy Cline

10. Tender Years - George Jones

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Disc: 2

1. Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. - Donna Fargo

2. Eleven Roses - Hank Williams, Jr.

3. I Love - Tom T. Hall

4. Jolene - Dolly Parton

5. Before the Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender

6. Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell

7. San Antonio Stroll - Tanya Tucker

8. Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) - Waylon Jennings

9. Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Crystal Gayle

10. Gambler - Kenny Rogers

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Classic Country Gold,Various Artists,Hip-O Records,Contemporary Country,Country,Country Collections,Country-Pop,Outlaw Country,Pop,Traditional Country,Urban Cowboy,V/a Compilations

Average customer rating: Country gold standard Four decades of country number ones + 1/2 stars...Nearly Forty Years of Classic Country

Classic Country Gold Various Artists Manufacturer: Hip-O Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music Cowboy | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Country | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music All Blowout Music | Blowout Music | Stores | Music More Titles at Least 25% Off | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Billboard #1s: Classic Country Pure Country Classics: The #1 Hits Classic Country: Great Story Songs Columbia Country Classics, Vol. 4: Nashville Sound Legends of Country: Classic Hits of the '50s, '60s & '70 ASIN: B000A0GPSQ Release Date: 2005-07-26

Tracks:

1. Hey, Good Lookin' - Hank Williams
2. It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels - Kitty Wells
3. Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford
4. Why Baby Why - Webb Pierce, Red Sovine
5. I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
6. All I Have to Do Is Dream - The Everly Brothers
7. Hello Walls - Faron Young
8. Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke, Leroy Van Dyke
9. I Fall to Pieces - Patsy Cline
10. Tender Years - George Jones
11. King of the Road - Roger Miller
12. Make the World Go Away - Eddy Arnold
13. Mama Tried - Merle Haggard
14. Hello Darlin' - Conway Twitty
15. Coal Miner's Daughter - Loretta Lynn
16. Help Me Make It Through the Night - Sammi Smith
17. Kiss an Angel Good Mornin' - Charley Pride
18. Chantilly Lace - Jerry Lee Lewis

Tracks:

1. Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. - Donna Fargo
2. Eleven Roses - Hank Williams, Jr.
3. I Love - Tom T. Hall
4. Jolene - Dolly Parton
5. Before the Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender
6. Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell
7. San Antonio Stroll - Tanya Tucker
8. Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) - Waylon Jennings
9. Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Crystal Gayle
10. Gambler - Kenny Rogers
11. Do You Know You Are My Sunshine - The Statler Brothers
12. I Believe in You - Don Williams
13. Elvira - The Oak Ridge Boys
14. I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool - George Jones, Barbara Mandrell
15. Fourteen Carat Mind - Gene Watson
16. God Bless the U.S.A. - Lee Greenwood
17. Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses - Kathy Mattea
18. Timber, I'm Falling in Love - Patty Loveless

Customer Reviews:

Country gold standard.......2006-01-30

Mainstream, popular Country music is what you get on this double CD album. From the dawn of the 1950s, when commercial recording interests took a firm hold on this particular strand of America's musical tradition, to the end of the 1980s, when other styles started to squeeze Country out of the charts.

In the late 60s and early 70s, it was widely acknowledged that the two gods of Country were Johnny Cash and Jim Reeves (selling better than ever after his untimely death). So it is strange that Reeves's star has waned so quickly, and he is excluded from a compilation like this. That would have been unthinkable thirty years ago; now it is unremarkable.

On the other hand, Jerry Lee Lewis definitely does not belong here. When Tennessee Ernie Ford says "If you see me coming, better stand aside. A lot of men didn't, a lot of men died", you don't really take him seriously. When Lewis introduces himself as "The Killer", you get the uneasy feeling he really means it. His music is on the fringes of country and his attitude is on the edge of sanity.

Still, this is a good, representative collection and is available at bargain prices, so has to be recommended. I always take it when I drive through the Mojave or the Sierras. For me, this is music for the open road.

Four decades of country number ones.......2005-07-29

Only one of the thirty-six tracks here didn't make it to number one in the American country singles charts, that being God bless the USA, which the compilers understandably selected to represent Lee Greenwood here in preference to any of his country number one hits. In its way, that selection shows that number one is not the only thing that matters in the music business - some of the most famous songs in popular music never made it to number one in any chart. Nevertheless, the number one position does indicate a certain measure of popularity and this collection contains many great country classics.

This compilation, being by Hip-O, has easy access to the vaults of the record labels that are now part of the Universal group, so those labels dominate - however, Hip-O have licensed some tracks from the Sony / BMG group, so Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Charley Pride and Eddy Arnold are included. The real surprise is that Reba McEntire and George Strait, two artists who each had several number one hits for Universal labels in the eighties, are omitted. You'd think it was easier for Hip-O to include them than to worry about Dolly and the others.

The tracks are in chronological sequence, beginning with Hank Williams in 1951 and ending with Patty Loveless in 1989. 1989 is an interesting and appropriate end-point, as that was the year when a new generation of singers changed everything in country music, or so it seemed. Of course, the new generation has recorded a lot of great music (though how much of it can truly be described as country is a matter for debate) but I know that many country fans regard 1989 as the beginning of the end of their kind of country music.

The compiler clearly likes the seventies best as there are fifteen tracks from that decade with seven tracks each from the fifties, sixties and eighties. I can well understand the compiler's preference, as it was a very good decade for country music, both at home in America and internationally.

With a compilation like this, it is always possible to argue about track selection - whether the song selected for the chosen artist is the best, whether some omitted artists should have been included and so on - but when you look at it overall, this is a brilliant compilation that provides a great introduction to four decades of country music - and it comes with liner notes by Rich Kienzle.

+ 1/2 stars...Nearly Forty Years of Classic Country.......2005-07-27

This 36-track collection chronologically covers nearly four decades of country music beginning with Hank Williams 1951 hit "Hey, Good Lookin'" and ending with Patty Loveless's 1989 hit "Timber, I'm Falling in Love." For any 2-CD set to adequately cover four decades is a nearly impossible task--especially when both discs run under sixty minutes.

This collection could easily have been expanded by an additional dozen or more tracks, allowing the compilers to focus more attention on country's golden era, namely the fifties and the sixties. There are only five tracks from the fifties and eight from the sixties, while the seventies--an era marked by crossover artists like Glen Campbell and Kenny Rogers--is represented by fifteen tracks (nearly half of the total).

In fact, the compilers of this anthology placed a lot of emphasis on crossover hits. Twenty of these No. 1 country hits also hit the top 40 on the pop charts, with "Sixteen Tons," "All I Have To Do Is Dream," "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" and "Rhinestone Cowboy" placing No. 1 on both charts.

There's only one serious misstep in the song selection. While it DID reach the top of the country charts in 1972, Jerry Lee Lewis's versions of the Big Bopper's "Chantilly Lace" simply is out of place. And personally, I could have done without Lee Greenwood's maudlin "God Bless the U.S.A." [Besides, it's the only song that didn't reach No. 1.] The only other flaw in this collection is that even though it runs through 1989, there are no artists from country's new traditionalism movement. Where's George Strait or Randy Travis?

With that said, this is an overall satisfying--albeit brief--look at four decades of country music. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Average customer rating: A decent introduction to Johnny Cash

36 Classic Tracks Johnny Cash Manufacturer: Solid Gold ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Country | Box Sets | Stores | Music General | Rock | Box Sets | Stores | Music Classic Rock | Box Sets | Stores | Music Similar Items: Greatest! Cash: The Autobiography The Essential Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison Walk the Line (Widescreen Edition) ASIN: B000BFH4MQ Release Date: 2005-11-01

Tracks:

1. Cry, Cry, Cry
2. Hey Porter
3. Folsom Prison Blues
4. So Doggone Lonesome
5. I Walk the Line
6. Get Rhythm
7. Train of Love
8. There You Go
9. Rock and Roll Ruby
10. Home of the Blues
11. Give My Love to Rose
12. Ballad of a Teenage Queen
13. Big River
14. Guess Things Happen That Way
15. Come in Stranger
16. Rock Island Line
17. Luther Played the Boogie
18. Down the Street to 301

Tracks:

1. Sunday Morning Coming Down
2. Country Boy
3. Thanks a Lot
4. Open Road
5. Boy Named Sue
6. Long Black Veil
7. Jackson
8. City of New Orleans
9. If I Were a Carpenter
10. Peace in the Valley
11. Ring of Fire
12. Story of a Broken Heart
13. Born to Lose
14. Cold Cold Heart
15. I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You)
16. I Heard That Lonesome Whistle
17. I Was There When It Happened
18. If the Good Lord's Willing

Customer Reviews:

A decent introduction to Johnny Cash.......2005-11-12

I was in Tower today (not a record shop I visit very often I promise) and I was looking for a Johnny Cash compilation to buy. I've had a casual interest in his music over the past several years and with the upcoming movie out soon I thought I would finally break down and purchase a "hits" collection to see if I could really get into him. Well I almost walked out with Legend (a 21 song cd spanning his entire career) when I looked below and found this gem. Its a small box set containing two cds of some of his early and best work: Cry, Cry, Cry, Folsom Prison Blues, I Walk The Line, Ring Of Fire, and some really amazing tracks that I've never heard of. The cd only cost 2 dollars more and contained 15 more songs than the Legends cd. A great buy!!! By the way, this an import and the label is not Solid Gold its Union Square Music.
I also got the Folsom Prison cd which is amazing as well.
So today I became a Johnny Cash fan and I have these cds to thank for it.

Average customer rating:

Classic Country Instrumental Gold Manufacturer: Excelsior ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0007TMKRK

Product Description

12 Classic Country Tracks

Average customer rating: Decent but could have been better

The Copulatin' Collection, Vol. 1 Various Artists Manufacturer: Vipers Nest Gold ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chicago Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Blues | Styles | Music Traditional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Acoustic Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music New Orleans Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Novelty Music | Comedic Music | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music 1920-1929 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music 1940-1949 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music 1930-1939 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Copulatin' Blues Banned : 20 Risque Songs From The 20s & 30s ASIN: B000002XR2 Release Date: 1995-07-03

Tracks:

1. Good Bossom Bread - Eddie Johnson & His Crackerjacks
2. Stew Meat Blues - Lucille Bogan
3. Organ Grinder Blues - Clarence Williams
4. Don't Tear My Clothes - State Street Swingers
5. Elevator Papa, Switchboard Mama - Butterbeans And Suzie
6. Yo Yo - Walter Pichon
7. When You Were A Girl Of Seven - Tampa Red
8. I Can Dish It (Can You Take It?) - Blue Scott And His Blue Boys
9. It's Too Big Papa - Claude Hopkins
10. Shave 'Em Dry - Bessie Jackson
11. Pussy, Pussy, Pussy - The Light Crust Dough Boys
12. Let Me Squeeze Your Lemon - Charlie Pickett
13. Bye Bye Cherry - Artist Unknown

Customer Reviews:

Decent but could have been better.......2001-02-12

With less than a handful of vintage "dirty blues" compilations around, it's hard to complain about a bad one. This one may not be bad, but it is merely decent: At under 43 minutes and only 13 tracks there's a real lack of material here. Factual errors (Track 2 "Stew Meat Blues" is incorrect -- it's actually Bessie Smith's "I got what it takes (But it breaks my heart to give it away)" from 1929) and omissions (Track 13 "Artist Unknown" is a rare transcription of Gene Autry) are real flaws. As is the odd inclusion of Light Crust Doughboys' "Pussy, Pussy, Pussy" -- why here?, and why digitize such an awful copy of this 1938 Vocalion single when Rhino/Sony's "Hillbilly Fever! Vol.1" reveals the track in its pristine glory. And whatever happened to Volume 2 anyway? Not bad for twelve bucks, but look first for Mojo Record's "The Copulatin' Blues" or the 2CD "Them Dirty Blues", or the Sony/Columbia "Raunchy Blues: Hot Nuts and Lollypops" for compilations with a better edge.

Average customer rating:

Forever Gold: Greatest Classic Country Various Artists Manufacturer: St. Clair Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B000TNJIIS Release Date: 2007-07-31

Average customer rating:

Dakota Railroad Town Centennial Sherwin Linton Manufacturer: Black Gold Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAGD9A Release Date: 2005-11-15

Tracks:

1. Arrival on the Memory Railroad Line
2. Covered Wagon Rolled Right Along
3. Dialogue
4. Yellow Rose of Texas
5. Centennial Time in Stickney
6. Blizzard
7. Dialogue
8. Milk 'Em in the Mornin Blues
9. Dialogue
10. Old Doc Brown
11. Dialogue
12. Candy Kisses
13. Dialogue
14. Papa Played the Dobro
15. Dialogue
16. Black Land Farmer
17. Dialogue
18. California Blues (Blue Yodel #4)
19. Dialogue
20. Henry Spricks General Store
21. Dialogue
22. Stars & Stripes Over Iwo Jima
23. Dialogue
24. Strawberry Roan
25. Dialogue
26. Pin Ball Boogie
27. Dialogue
28. Little Oscar and the Gang
29. Dialogue
30. Old Abandoned Railroad Station
31. Dialogue
32. Daisy a Day
33. Dialogue
34. Sick, Sober & Sorry & Stuck in Stickney
35. Twentieth Centure Is Gone & Over
36. Stickney News 1
37. Stickney News 2
38. Stickney News 3
39. Hicktown
40. Rusting in the Rain

Average customer rating:

Heartland Centennial Sherwin Linton Manufacturer: Black Gold Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAGH6Y Release Date: 2005-11-15

Tracks:

1. Osmond Centennial Ballad
2. Home on the Range
3. Red River Valley
4. Maple Leaf Rag
5. Clementine
6. Church in the Wildwood
7. She Wears a Yeller Ribbon
8. Billy Boy
9. Let the Rest of the World Go By
10. Springtime in the Rockies
11. So Long
12. Mighty Train
13. You Are My Sunshine
14. Tony's Boogie Woogie
15. There's a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere
16. Silver Haired Daddy of Mine
17. Sioux City Sue
18. Mockingbird Hill
19. Mom & Dad
20. Get Rhythm
21. Memories Are Made of This
22. That Little Boy of Mine
23. Green Leaves of Summer

Average customer rating:

Classic Country: Country Gold, Vol. 2 Various Artists Manufacturer: Direct Source Label ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Cowboy | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Honky-Tonk | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Country | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Country General | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Country General | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music ASIN: B00005AVFX Release Date: 2000-06-26

Tracks:

1. Wasted Days and Wasted Nights - Freddy Fender
2. Jukebox Charlie - Johnny Paycheck
3. Susie Q - Mickey Gilley
4. Happiest Girl in the Whole USA - Donna Fargo
5. Sally Was a Good Old Girl - Waylon Jennings
6. Look What They've Done to My Song - Billie Jo Spears
7. Moonlight Gambler - Frankie Laine
8. Please Release Me - Barbara Mandrell
9. Letter to Heaven - Dolly Parton

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Easy-Listening Gold: Easy-Listening Country /20 Classic Tracks Manufacturer: Reader's Digest ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0009T8856

Product Description

Various Artists / Easy-Listening Gold Label: Reader's Digest Year: 1993 Track Title 1. Here You Come Again -77/1 -- Dolly Parton 2. Face To Face-w/K.T. Oslin-88/1 -- Alabama 3. I Fall To Pieces-61/1 -- Patsy Cline 4. Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town - Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, 69/ -- Kenny Rogers & The First Edition 5. Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue-77/1 -- Crystal Gayle 6. Turn The World Around-67/1 -- Eddy Arnold 7. Somebody's Knockin'-81/8 -- Terri Gibbs 8. Dixie Road-85/1 -- Lee Greenwood 9. Born To Be With You-68/1 -- Sonny James 10. I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool - Barbara Mandrell w/George Jones -- Barbara Mandrell with George Jones 11. Islands In The Stream - Kenny Rogers w/Dolly Parton, 83/1 -- Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton 12. Welcome To My World-64/2 -- Jim Reeves 13. Try A Little Kindness-69/2 -- Glen Campbell 14. One Of A Kind Pair Of Fools-83/1 -- Barbara Mandrell 15. All I Have To Offer You Is Me-69/1 -- Charley Pride 16. Twentieth Century Drifter-74/10 -- Marty Robbins 17. I Believe In You=-80/1 -- Don Williams 18. Blue, Blue Day-58/1 -- Don Gibson 19. What's He Doin' In My World-65/1 -- Eddy Arnold 20. Gentle On My Mind-68/44 -- Glen Campbell

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Classic Country Hits Various Artists Manufacturer: Essential Gold ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B000FJI4B8 Release Date: 2005-09-13

Music Album:

1. Come Along with Me
2. Comfort in the Curves
3. Country Legends [Import]
4. Don't Cry to Me [Enhanced]
5. Etsi Shon (Grandfather Song)
6. Even Now
7. Everybody's Talkin'
8. Evie, Pts. 1-3 [CD-single] [Enhanced] [Import]
9. Farmers in a Changing World
10. Fiddle Breakdown: 20 Instrumental Favorites

Music Album